Adventures of the Antirider Rider

Looks like a cassette but really it’s an… …iPhone in disguise!  Thanks to my BFF Chad for yet another amazing and thoughtful “add-on” gift.  The only weird thing is when you’re holding this, it looks like you’re just staring a cassette. Problem: down toward the bottom of the bag, it’s hard to get to the [...]

Oh yeah… this is the LAST Charlotte show ever for Appetite for Destruction! Check out Poison and Brett Michaels.  I didn’t realize these cover bands dressed up like the real deal but it sure is funny.     We even have a harmonica solo.  It makes me want to dig out my old harmonica and [...]

I get ready to sell my Android, power it up, and see this.  What is the target?  I feel like I’m on an episode of Lost.  Keep pushing the buttons but don’t turn off the target.  Eventually, I just pull out the battery and all is well again. Picture this: you’re some nice young professionals [...]

I know this looks like I photoshopped this onto the image but this is a clear sticker affixed firmly to the interior of our balcony door. Classic C story:  I go to hang my purse on my very cool purple bling purse hook but when I go to hang it on the rail, the rail [...]

The nice thing about a weekend getaway is there is no schedule.  As we’re rolling along to the beach, we stumble across a bookstore going out of business.  I imagine small town bookstores are dying rapidly these days.  Even the big giants like Borders can’t keep up with e-media and internet sellers like Amazon.com. The [...]

Julie and I enjoy our dinners out on coupons as a way to keep in touch.  We get seated on the second floor with a nice view of the downstairs tables at 300 East.   The food doesn’t disappoint here as she orders a bacon burger with pimento cheese and surprise!  I order the steak [...]

When it’s your birthday, you get to do whatever you want and you call all the shots.  Here Russell is inspecting this Mitsubishi air conditioner.  For all the time I talk about purses, Russell likes to talk about air conditioners. Terrace Café has so many delicious choices, he doesn’t know what to choose! We start [...]

Russell has quite the windfall of gifts for his birthday!    Since he loves robots, he gets a Build your own Fast Frog kit. Because he’s not immune to getting the random gifts from my mom, a box arrives on his special day from Land’s End addressed to him.  He opens the box and lo [...]

Real carrots.  Real carrots from the garden.  Real BIG carrots from the garden.  Notice the perspective next to the sink drain.   I arrive to see that Brendan has quite the spread set up for cooking.   He’s even using a cook book printed on real paper and bound into a real book.  Brendan is [...]

You know you share the same brain when you can have a text conversation that goes like this: Did the groundhog see his shadow?  Did you get another year older?  Did you finally learn Spanish using Rosetta Stone?  Can I survive in the middle of nowhere Texas?  I guess we’ll find out all these answers [...]

Just because I’m not traveling, doesn’t mean I’m not experiencing culture.  Here Lenny and Tory show off their dancing skills to some Lady Ga Ga songs on Dance Central 2 with XBOX Kinect.   OK, so when you’re an engineer (not implying or eluding to the fact that I am one, or even the mechanical [...]

It’s true.  I put on a pair of jammies and hopped into an RV with four other guys for forty hours straight.  Here Rick shows off his American sized travel cup. Dave stands watch with the big truck and big engine.   This is what we call Mission Control where Rick is running two laptops, [...]